Scheduling my flight, myself

Large, spider in my room that I had to drive out.

Now that I have a phone number that looks like it will work, I called Philippines Airlines in the morning with my cell phone to try to schedule my open ticket for May 12th. I successfully connected with an airline agent but while she was scheduling my flight, I ran out of load - prepaid call time - and was disconnected. I actually had to go out to a store to find load and reload my phone. Bummer.

I needed to do a few things at home before I ventured out to find a place to load my phone. So, while at home, I made lunch and worked on my journal so that when I go to Alona I can just upload my journal. Sometime in the early afternoon, I went to Panglao to get gas and check for a place that sells prepaid load cards. Nope. I drove to Alona Beach because I knew there is a place there I can load my phone and plus I needed to go there regardless.

Once I loaded my phone, I went to Genesis and called Philippines Airlines again. I explained to the agent what I needed and what happened and she immediately scheduled a flight for me. She was very competent and did what I needed in half the time as the previous agent. However, she wanted me to either drive to the airport in Tagbilaran or hire a driver from a resort to take my ticket receipt and have it validated. Isn’t there a better way to do this rather than drive a half hour to the airport? She said there wasn’t.

While at Genesis, I decided to try and fix my 1st stage regulator from the grips of corrosion. With a little force, a vise, and a few other tools, I managed to free the yoke screw from the yoke. I discovered that some of the threading on the yoke screw was bent and making it still hard, but possible, to screw in.

The rest of the day I spent at Coco Vida updated my seriously backlogged web journal, photos, and downloading the new free Nine Inch Nails album “The Slip”. Awesome, free music.

Since I didn’t want to drive to Tagbilaran to validate my ticket, I decided to hire some driver to do the dirty work. I went to the resort that the airline agent recommended, Alona Kew Resort. The receptionist at the resort seemed to know what was needed, took my ticket information, and said she would text me the next day once she did what was needed.


- jason